The
International Center
is also available to advise international students and visiting scholars. They may be reached at 258-5006.

At 9:17 a.m. on Nov. 12, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 carrying 255 people, crashed in the Rockaway section of Queens, a borough of New York City. It had left New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and was bound for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. At least 16 people on the ground were injured in the crash as well.